I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThe biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
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You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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